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Why You Should Use WordPress for Your Author Blog

November 13, 2014 by Emily Andrews-McKee

wordpressIf you are an author and you are toying with the idea of starting a blog so you can either promote your existing books or highlight or showcase your writing skills or maybe jog your creative juices, you should use WordPress as your blogging platform. While you can go with other blogging software, when it comes to scalability, ease of use, versatility, and security, you simply can’t find a better alternative than WordPress. This blogging platform software is so tried and proven that many hosting services automatically bundle WordPress with hosting packages they offer. You only need access your hosting account’s main dashboard or control panel and click a button and enter some keystrokes to unleash the full blogging power of WordPress. Check out the key considerations below. They spell out why you should go with this battle-tested blogging software option.

WordPress is a very easy and scalable online publishing platform
One of the main reasons why WordPress is the world’s most popular blogging platform is its ease of use. You only need to click one button and enter a few keystrokes to install WordPress. It is built into many of the popular server control panel software. This takes all the guesswork and technical hassles of installing wordpress. Also, WordPress is very easy to scale up. You can run one blog on your server hosting account or one hundred. You only need to click a button and enter some information into your server’s software installation control panel to scale up your wordpress installations.

WordPress has a huge number of plugins and themes
If you want your WordPress installation to do lots of different things or to look very different from other blogs, you can do so easily. Thanks to a huge number of paid and free plugins and themes available on the Internet, you can change the way your WordPress installation behaves or looks. The only limit, really, is your imagination because you can customize these plugins and theme to fit your blogging goals. This versatility of function and form is why WordPress is the Internet’s default blogging platform.

WordPress is very safe
Another reason why you should use Worpdress for your blogging needs is security. There are so many malware and security threats floating on the Internet. Worpdress affords a much-needed layer of protection because it is an open-source software that developers the world over can access. Since there is a huge army of developers and coders from all over the world working on WordPress every single day, any security issues are quickly detected and a fix or updated version released by WordPress main distribution group.

It is no accident that the vast majority of self-hosted blogs on the Itnernet run WordPress. WordPress is very easy to operate and is very intuitive. You don’t have to be a tch geek to find your way inside WordPress. This blogging platform is also supported by a huge number of themes and plugins-many of them free. You can make your Worpdress blog look and behave the way you want it. Finally, when ti comes to safety and freedom from sofwtare vulnerabilities, WordPress is solid.

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